{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 223/1923-03-31/p006","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"To repeat, it is not a breathing of air of which we speak, but the in-and-out-breathing of *forces*, of which we can get a partial idea if we notice the plant-growth during the course of the year. We intend today to bring this annual breathing process of the Earth before our souls.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture I","site_heading":"Earth's Yearly Breathing: Christ and Michael in Cosmic Cycles","site_heading_note":"A heading the site wrote for this unit from a summary of it; not in the edition, and not the words of Rudolf Steiner or of the translator. 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